Several buildings in the process of being demolished on West Side Avenue at Ege Avenue on Monday were apparently left in an unsafe condition and city officials responded and ordered them taken down immediately, officials said.

Police and city officials responded to the location where 439, 437, and 429 West Side Ave. as well as 257 Ege Ave. were being demolished just before 5 p.m. and found "parts of the building that were left standing were now leaning and could possibly collapse, causing a dangerous situation," a police report says.

Numerous police cruisers and motorcycles were sent to the location to close down streets around the building and the company doing the demolition was ordered to finish the work immediately and was issued multiple summonses for "failing to comply with proper permits and street closure permits," the report says.

The property is owned by nearby St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Church and the buildings were vacant.